French-born, Danish-raised Gabriel Axel is perhaps best recalled for his international success, the Academy Award-winning foreign-language "Babette's Feast" (1987), but he has had a long career as an actor, director and writer in both film, television and the theater.After training at the Danish National Conservatory and following WWII, Axel returned to Paris and began working as a stagehand and actor with Louis Jouvet's theater company. He then migrated back to Copenhagen and began acting in boulevard comedies on stage and in small role in Danish films. Axel stepped behind the cameras to
